Siege of Bucharest (1805)

The Siege of Bucharest was the second battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1805, taking place in late May 1805. The Russian general Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov and a Russian army of 6,980 troops took Bucharest without a fight.

History
Having conquered Moldova & Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire, Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov and his Russian army of 6,980 troops moved south to invade the Province of Wallachia, home to 664,167 people (80% of them Orthodox Christians). Planning to liberate their fellow Slavic Christians from Ottoman Muslim rule, the Russians laid siege to the city, defended by Dilman Huseyin and 6,000 Ottoman militia. The Russians demanded that the city surrender. Huseyin did not want to waste lives, so he agreed to capitulate.